José Isbert
José Isbert (real name: José Ysbert Alvarruiz), also known as Pepe Isbert (3 March 1886 in Madrid – 28 November 1966 in Madrid), was a Spanish actor. In 1912 he debuted in the short film Asesinato y entierro de Don José Canalejas (playing Pardiñas, the anarchist who killed José Canalejas). During the silent era he worked in theatre with supporting roles in cinema, but with the advent of sound, he made a big screen comeback in the comedy directed by Florián Rey, La pura verdad in (1931). In the 1930s he acted in half a dozen films including: ¿Cuándo te suicidas? (1931) directed by Manuel Romero, La bien pagada (1935) by Eusebio Fernández Ardavín orEl bailarín y el trabajador (1935), directed by Luis Marquina and based on a play by Jacinto Benavente. In the 1940s he gained great popularity in films such as Te quiero para mí (1944) and El testamento del virrey (1944), both directed by Ladislao Vajda; Ella, él y sus millones (1944) by Juan de Orduña; El fantasma y doña Juanita (1945) by Rafael Gil and Pacto de silencio (1949), by Antonio Román. The films he is most remembered for are from the 1950s and 1960s, in classics directed by Luis García Berlanga: Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953), Los jueves, milagro(1957) and El verdugo (1963); and the dark comedy masterpiece El cochecito by Marco Ferreri, all written by Rafael Azcona. He was the grandfather in the Spanish classic La gran familia (1962), and its sequel La gran familia... y uno más (1965), these films earning him still greater popularity. Pepe Isbert died in Madrid due to a heart condition when he was 80 years old. He was buried at Tarazona de la Mancha cemetery in the province of Albacete.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.04 |
| Birthday | 1886-03-03 |
| Place of Birth | Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
| Also Known As | José Ysbert Alvarruiz, Don José Isbert, Jose Isbert, Pepe Isbert, Хосе Исберт, |
1955
Congress in Seville
6.5/2
Carmen is a Spanish emigrant in Stockholm who does not have the money to run her business or buy a ticket back to Spain. Thanks to a misunderstanding...
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Congress in Seville
1963
The Executioner
7.57/172
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after...
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The Executioner
1953
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
7.4/111
A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the...
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Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1967
Lo que cuesta vivir
0/0
Mr Antonio is undergoing a bad economic situation that shares with his daugther Leonor, a lovely teenager who makes him happy and helps him sewing to...
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Lo que cuesta vivir
1961
Despedida de soltero
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A couple of friends, "Carmen" (Silvia Solar) and "Miguel"(Germán Cobos), fail to raise the money needed to marry. These difficulties encouraged the il...
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Despedida de soltero
1945
El fantasma y doña Juanita
3.5/4
Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many year...
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El fantasma y doña Juanita
1959
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
7.3/12
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Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1950
Cuentos de la Alhambra
8.8/4
Mariquilla is a beautiful gypsy who is in love with Lucas, a soldier of the garrison in the Alhambra, but her father wants to marry her with Don Cosme...
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Cuentos de la Alhambra
1957
Angels at the Wheel
6.3/3
A group of taxi drivers try to reanimate a young woman who has been close to being run over by one of them. To improve her mood all of them tell her c...
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Angels at the Wheel
1957
Miracles of Thursday
6.8/29
In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism.
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Miracles of Thursday
1953
The Lovers of Toledo
1/1
Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the chief of police.
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The Lovers of Toledo
1957
Fulano y Mengano
6.3/3
Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.
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Fulano y Mengano
1936
The Dancer and the Worker
4.8/5
The wealthy father of a young girl who has a relationship with a boy who has just won a waltzing contest employs him in a factory in order to make him...
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The Dancer and the Worker
1962
You and I Are Three
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When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her...
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You and I Are Three
1960
The Wheelchair
6.8/48
Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him...
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The Wheelchair
1957
The Man Who Wagged His Tail
7.2/14
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1948
El señor Esteve
5.7/3
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El señor Esteve
1956
Los ladrones somos gente honrada
7/5
A gang of robbers enters a house, hosting a party with intent to commit a robbery. But the leader of the gang met the daughter of the house ... and fa...
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Los ladrones somos gente honrada
1955
El guardián del paraíso
8/1
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in t...
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El guardián del paraíso
1959
Bombs for Peace
6/1
Professor Don Carlos is a scientist who, after much research, discovers a chemical compound that, in the form of bomb, is capable of making people bec...
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Bombs for Peace
1963
Perro golfo
0/0
A widower butcher uses the grace of his child's pet, a tramp dog, to attract customers to his post. One day, seen how effective is this system, he dec...
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Perro golfo
1958
Villa Alegre
5/1
Pepe and his partner are two truck drivers in the middle of a trip, they decide to stop in the road and stop at the nearest town. This town, which is...
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Villa Alegre
1962
La gran familia
6.5/35
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La gran familia
1957
Faustina
5.7/6
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Faustina
1958
Life Ahead
6.5/12
Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work...
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Life Ahead
1964
Los dinamiteros
5/6
Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect...
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Los dinamiteros
1960
Don Lucio and Brother Pío
7.2/4
Brother Pío, intending to collect charity for a group of nuns who run an orphanage, travels to Madrid with a statue of the Baby Jesus. On the train ri...
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Don Lucio and Brother Pío
1960
Días de feria
5/1
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1962
Sabían demasiado
4.5/4
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Sabían demasiado
1912
Assassination and burial of José Canalejas
5/3
Film based on the assassination of the Spanish politician José Canalejas at Manuel Pardiñas's hands on 12 November of 1912. It has two parts: The firs...
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1962
Those Who Did Not Go to War
6/1
First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they d...
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Those Who Did Not Go to War
1954
Eleven Pairs of Boots
6/2
Ignacio, a professional footballer, has sentimental and labor problems. His girlfriend is about to abandon him because of the constant displays of aff...
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Eleven Pairs of Boots
1961
Don José, Pepe y Pepito
5/2
The arrival of Francis, who owns a factory of surgical material in New York, caused a real stir in a family composed by her grandfather, Pepe, the son...
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Don José, Pepe y Pepito
1950
My Beloved Juan
6.6/5
The strange disappearance of the dogs of his neighbors leads Juan to investigate the case on his own. It ends up finding out that the author of the ro...
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My Beloved Juan
1944
Una chica de opereta
0/0
A poor composer sells his songs to a music publisher who attributes them to his son, who sells them to a famous singer. Seeking the son, the musician'...
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Una chica de opereta
1952
Near the city
6.333/3
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Near the city
1956
La chica del barrio
0/0
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La chica del barrio
1954
All Is Possible in Granada
5/1
Following meetings between Spain and the United States a delegation of a mining company arrives to Granada in search of uranium. The company contacted...
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All Is Possible in Granada
1962
Vamos a contar mentiras
7.8/4
A happily married woman lies with surprising ease because, according to her husband, she leads too idle a life.
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Vamos a contar mentiras
1955
Un día perdido
6/4
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Un día perdido
1965
Un americano en Toledo
0/0
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Un americano en Toledo
1951
Black Sky
6.111/18
A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
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Black Sky
1935
Broken Lives
0/0
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Broken Lives
1948
La fiesta sigue
4.3/3
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La fiesta sigue
1944
Orosia
0/0
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Orosia
1950
El capitán Veneno
4.7/3
In Madrid, under Queen Isabel II reign, rebellions are frequent events. During one of them Captain Jorge de Córdoba, nicknamed Veneno (poison) for his...
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El capitán Veneno
1957
Tremolina
0/0
A 1957 Spanish film.
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Tremolina
1952
Doña Francisquita
6.8/8
Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora.
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Doña Francisquita
1954
The Adventurer of Seville
5.7/3
Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the polic...
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The Adventurer of Seville
1954
Un caballero andaluz
0/0
In the farmhouse Los Laureles, owned by Don Juan Manuel Almodovar, wealthy Andalusian landowner, everything is being prepared to receive José Luis, on...
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Un caballero andaluz
1955
Radio Stories
7.2/12
Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need mon...
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1955
The Miller's Saucy Wife
5/1
In a region of Andalusia, all the men lust after the miller's young wife.
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The Miller's Saucy Wife
1963
The Gang of Eleven
6/3
Inspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed...
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The Gang of Eleven
1953
¡Che, qué loco!
0/0
A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstandings.
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¡Che, qué loco!
1956
Uncle Hyacynth
6.6/21
Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must part...
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Uncle Hyacynth
1952
Lola the Coalgirl
6.7/3
Cadiz, during the War of Independence. The Lola singer in love with a French military entrusted an important message ...
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Lola the Coalgirl
1953
This is Madrid
7.2/4
In Madrid during the fifties' the calm life from some neighbors will be changed since the arrival of Antonio, a man without scruples who lives running...
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This is Madrid
1941
Alma de Dios
5/2
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Alma de Dios
2015
Spanish Western
6.167/15
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it pos...
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Spanish Western
1960
Vida sin risas
0/0
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Vida sin risas
1956
The Rocket from Calabuch
7.4/38
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. H...
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The Rocket from Calabuch
1960
El Litri y su sombra
4/5
Biopic about Miguel Báez "El Litri", a descendant of two generations of bullfighters: his older brother touched the glory before he died at twenty yea...
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El Litri y su sombra
1965
The Family and One More
6.4/16
The life of the family inordinate surveyor Carlos Alonso has undergone several changes over the course of the years: the birth of child number 16, lit...
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The Family and One More
1949
En un rincón de España
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En un rincón de España
1950
Sin uniforme
0/0
Several different people meet in Tangier, where they will have to join efforts to survive.
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Sin uniforme
1950
La familia Vila
6/5
Mr. Vila is a family father who has worked a lot during his life to achieve a good life for his family. His oldest daughter, Elvira, causes him many p...
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La familia Vila
1943
Fin de curso
0/0
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Fin de curso
1961
Margarita se llama mi amor
3.5/2
Margarita is a beautiful and explosive girl studying in the Faculty of Arts somewhere in Galicia. To the chagrin of the rest of the girls in the class...
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Margarita se llama mi amor
1962
Cupido contrabandista
0/0
John is a shy and good-natured man who lives in Ceuta and does everything by correspondence, from studying a career or learning judo to getting a girl...
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Cupido contrabandista
1949
Pacto de silencio
0/0
A woman is told his military husband is considered dead, the truth is he has been transferred to the secret service. When he returns to Spain and they...
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Pacto de silencio
1949
Siempre vuelven de madrugada
0/0
A good-for-nothing young man and his friend are involved in a woman's death. To escape Police and wanting a change he goes to the small country villag...
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Siempre vuelven de madrugada
1956
Dos novias para un torero
5/2
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Dos novias para un torero
1967
Operation Delilah
6/1
A couple try to help the residents of a small Caribbean island overthrow a dictator.
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Operation Delilah
1951
Una cubana en España
6/1
Blanquita, a very superstitious Cuban young woman, visits a fortune teller on the eve of her wedding to Roberto. She predicts that her first husband i...
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Una cubana en España
1935
La bien pagada
0/0
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La bien pagada
1944
Ella, él y sus millones
5.5/2
Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.
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Ella, él y sus millones
1952
Estrella de Sierra Morena
7/2
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Estrella de Sierra Morena
1945
Un hombre de negocios
0/0
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Un hombre de negocios
1961
Punto y banca
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Punto y banca
1953
Airport
5.3/3
Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for hi...
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Airport
1954
Love on Wheels
0/0
A taxi driver participates in a singing contest of a radio station for non-professionals and enters the final round. Being among the finalists he meet...
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Love on Wheels
1956
Afternoon at the Bulls
4.8/5
Right-handers Ricardo Puente, Juan Carmona and Rondeño II, which will take the alternative are advertised in the poster. The first is an old bullfight...
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Afternoon at the Bulls
1950
Servicio en la mar
0/0
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Servicio en la mar
1951
Spanish Round
0/0
Over a hundred members of the chorus girls and dance groups from the Spanish "Sección Femenina" embark to America to show the richness of their nation...
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Spanish Round
1944
La vida empieza a medianoche
6/1
Silvia Heredia, since her arrival to Madrid is staying at her best friends' house, Mary. Her aim is to work as a secretary of a famous novelist. But a...
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La vida empieza a medianoche
1924
La mala ley
0/0
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La mala ley
1954
Como la tierra
0/0
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Como la tierra
1954
Nuits andalouses
0/0
When her father died, Dominique de Bellocombes inherited her ancestors' château, some worthless shares and a mine in Spain. To save the castle, which...
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Nuits andalouses
1956
Manolo guardia urbano
6.333/6
Manolo, a cheerful and kind traffic policeman is happy at the birth of his first child, after twenty years of marriage. His happiness contrasts with t...
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Manolo guardia urbano
1947
Love Charm
5.4/5
Berta is a young manicurist whose boyfriend, Jorge, is too shy to ask for a raise, something she always blames him for. On the occasion of a special j...
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Love Charm
1951
The Seventh Page
8/1
Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh...
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The Seventh Page
1950
Un soltero difícil
0/0
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Un soltero difícil
1951
Me quiero casar contigo
0/0
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Me quiero casar contigo
1952
Sor Intrépida
0/0
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Sor Intrépida
1952
Último día
0/0
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Último día
1953
Condemned to Hang
5.3/6
Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero...
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Condemned to Hang
1954
Intriga en el escenario
0/0
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Intriga en el escenario
1954
Nubes de verano
0/0
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Nubes de verano
1956
Sucedió en mi aldea
0/0
Two young and innocent altar boys leave in search of money to buy a new bell for the tower of the village church.
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Sucedió en mi aldea
1956
Rapto en la ciudad
0/0
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